There is so much you don’t know about. The judge was not a liberal appointee. He was a good conservative judge.
I think he would have had pity on Larry if he had not been so obviously lying. Larry Craig has no explanation for his behavior. It certainly was not the behavior of an innocent man. It is hard for a judge to overturn a signed admission of guilt without a compelling reason.
I read all the court documents, I read the transcript and I listened to the tape. Based on all that evidence, I can say Larry Craig was certainly guilty of alarming behavior and his actions did not belong in a bathroom. To believe Larry Craig, you have to believe that the entire world is lying about him and is out to get him, not just the democrats, but conservatives, police, judges, and any reasonable and logical person. They must all be trying to make him look bad.
You have decided to declare his innocence based solely on listening to a tape. That’s an emotional decision and I understand it. I don’t agree with it, but to each his own.
I appreciate your comments. However, I am not making an emotional decision here, none whatsoever.
Just the opposite.
The emotional response would be one of anger and disgust at a US Senator, especially a pro family, prolife, Christian conservative one, being “caught in the act” of soliciting for sex in that bathroom.
The emotional response would be one of added anger and disgust and outrage when these latest accusations were published that this same Senator was still in office and had not stepped down.
My support of Senator Craig on this issue has nothing to do with emotion - I actually knew nothing about Senator Craig before all this started except that he was a conservative Republican Senator who had a high conservative voting record and was from the state of Idaho. Period.
The interview with the officer IS THE KEY bit of first hand evidence we have. It is the only evidence we the public have of what occurred in that airport bathroom and THAT is the ONLY event that arrest is critical because that event is what led to all subsequent actions by Senator Craig and the calls for his resignation.
Here is a link to the transcript of that interview: http://www.gameshout.com/news/was_senator_larry_craig_setup/article9368.htm
It is NOT an emotional response to have listened to and to read that interview and to decide Senator Craig is totally innocent of doing anything in that bathroom other than using it for its usual purposes and of picking up a piece of paper off the bathroom floor.
There is much to say about that interview....have done that already...but the key point in the interview is the police officer’s insistence that he saw Sen. Craig’s left hand reach under the stall wall because it had his wedding ring on it. Yet that hand was on the opposite side of the stall from the wall nearest the officer. As Sen. Craig tries to point out - “you saw something that did not occur”.
He would have had to reach his left hand over and under that stall wall. Finally the officer realizes he has a problem here on his accusation - so he says.....did you remove your wedding ring from your left hand and place it on your right hand any time today? Sen. Craig says no of course not - here you try to take it off my left hand (it won’t come off). Senator Craig....you saw something that did not occur.
In other words, the officer made that up. He totally fabricated the claim that he saw the Senator’s wedding ring hand go under that stall wall - it did not happen. That officer knew it. Knew he was caught in his bogus claim so tried to claim the Senator took off his wedding ring and put it on is right hand. But, to his dismay, that ring could have been moved to the right hand because it was stuck - could not possibly be removed. I have a ring like that. You would have to cut through the ring to get it off.
So what does the officer do? He keeps repeating: “embarrassing”. Yes he is an embarrassment to honest law enforcement officers everywhere.
Are you saying that in court, the officer produced additional evidence than what was discussed in this interview?
If so, what was it. I’d like to know. Or a link to the court documents and in formation on that judge would suffice.
I have never accused those who take the opposite view of these events of acting out of emotion and not reason. Freepers as a rule do not do that....though of course there are exceptions.
However, the jump to judgement without looking at actually what happened that day in terms of what started all of this is exactly the emotional result that these bogus charges were intended to produce. Same with the latest unfounded accusations.
You do realize that nonthinking people across this country and the world believe that Senator Craig was “caught” in the act of the sex act with another man in that bathroom, don’t you?
All because the man used the bathroom as it was intended to be used.
And by the way the only person who was even “soliciting” for sex that day was not Senator Craig. It was that officer - just as Senator Craig says in his interview.